21.Dec.2004
Amiga Information Center (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: MOSEmu runs MorphOS software under OS4
Some people are working on an emulation that runs MorphOS software under AmigaOS 4 (screenshot).
If and when this emulation will be made available to the public is not known yet.
(cg)
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20.Dec.2004
bplan (E-Mail)
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Merry Christmas from bplan: How to build the machine
We like to thank you for the confidence you set in us and our products in the past year. After over 1,000,000 components used in the Pegasos II production we would like to take the opportunity to thank our customers. The video How to build the machine (19 MB) is our Christmas gift to you.
"How to build the machine" is made by the following persons (on the photo in the sequence from right to the left):
- GC Master of PowerPC®
- TD Master of the machines
- TK Mister Component
We wish all our webvisitors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2005.
These images and movies are under property by bplan GmbH and are allowed only to be published with our agreement. (snx)
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19.Dec.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Non-Linear Video Editing System for MorphOS
The archive "MSchnitt-Mos.lha" contains four programs that together comprise a non-linear video editing system. It's written fully in ARexx and requires the following programs be installed:
- ARexx
- MPlayer (>1.0)
- Mencoder
- ogmtools-1.4.1-morphos (ogmmerge)
- mkvtoolnix-0.9.1-morphos (mkvmerge)
- fxPAINT (2.0+)
Features:
- Video edit
- Add new sound
- Convert video formats
- Sound processing
- Sound edit
- Merging of video clips to create a larger
- Video titling
- FX-effects
- Merging of sound clips to create a larger
- Encoding of single frames
- Decoding of single frames
- Support of multitrack videos in Ogg Mediastream or Matroska Media-Vision
The following link points to a demo video illustrating features of the MSchnitt package: http://pegasossoft.de/Movie.avi (3 MB)
A side effect of MSchnitt is the manipulation of multitrack videos. These are videos with more than one video or audio track. Here's a demo clip: http://pegasossoft.de/Movie_kopergeschuetzt.mkv (3 MB).
These clips can only be played with the newest MPlayer version, because they make use of the Matroska format. Whoever has no knowledge of MPlayer will only see the copy-protected video, and not the other stuff.
Unfortunately I haven't written any instructions, because that too would be a bit much for me. But whoever seriously wants to use the package can send me an e-mail and I'll write back right away.
Download: http://pegasossoft.de/MSchnitt-Mos.lha (357 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Event: videos from the Pianeta Amiga
Davide 'Turrican' Michelini released a series of short videos on amigapage.it from the "Pianeta Amiga" that took place on December, 12th in Rome:
Another short video by Andrea Maniero shows among other things the Formula 1 simulation "Virtual Grand Prix" running under MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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News regarding DKG II and the SN archives
Today a new version of the coins data base SN-EuroArchiv was released. New in v1.8 are among other things an improved image support, slide and thumbnail show, the possibility to enter special coins and medals,
that are part of currency coins sets,
the support for the 2 Euro commemorative coin was improved, etc. All changes can be found in the history.
As a special offer for Christmas are "Die kleine Gilde II" and all SN archives (SN-EuroArchiv, SN-BilderArchiv, SN-MarkenArchiv etc.) available for special prices at eBay.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
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os4depot.net: uploads until December, 18th 2004
Since our last posting new added uploads at os4depot.net:
amishots.lha gra/mis 91kb AMIShots for Amiga. An Amiga clone of Webshots
nslookup.lha net/mis 22kb NSLookup converts domain names into IP addresses
duke3d.lha gam/fps 526kb Duke Nukem 3D
limpidclock.lha uti/wor 63kb transparent clock / calendar
angband-bin.lha gam/rol 1Mb Angband - a modern rogue-like RPG game
zangband-bin.lha gam/rol 2Mb ZAngband - a popular Angband variant
cathangband.lha gam/rol 991kb CatH-Angband - Another Angband variant.
kangband.lha gam/rol 991kb KAngband - Another Angband variant.
rearg.lha uti/she 4kb Adds flexibility to Alias command
titleclock.lha uti/wor 7kb Display the date and time in the WB title
snoopdos.lha uti/mis 243kb SnoopDos compiled for AmigaOS 4
killwingui.lha uti/mis 59kb Kills the windows of crashed apps
tunenet.lha aud/pla 101kb Basic Shoutcast and MP3 Player
sb128ahi.lha dri/aud 17kb OS4 SB128 AHI driver
angbandborg.lha gam/rol 1Mb Angband recompiled with 'borg' support.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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Feelin: version 08.00 released
Feelin, an object orientated system for AmigaOS (screenshot), is now available as version 08.00. The system comes in towo parts: the feelin.library written completely in assembler as core and an expandable system to create graphical user interfaces.
Though several classes developed to create graphical user interfaces come with Feelin, it is not restricted to this.
The latest enhancements are among other things:
- XML file support to develop applications. These so called XMLapplications can be created "on the fly" including support for notify, object export, data import, etc
- The preferences and particularly the update mechanism were written completely new and many pop classes were added (especially the awaited FC_PopFont class) as well as several preference groups were improved
- Servers aren't supported anymore but replaced by shared objects (FC_AppServer is now a shared object)
- The dynamic layout adaption has been further improved and updates are now cleaner (only changed objects are new drawn)
- The "Locked" state is now fully supported including adjustable colour scheme
Download: feelin041218.lha (598 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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18.Dec.2004
Robin (ANF)
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Hollywood game: TriMa'gic
Under the title link you can find a small Workbench game written with Hollywood by Robin Hueskes "similar to Logical but completely different". The principle of TriMa'gic is to remove all pieces of the same colour from the board. The game is available for AmigaOS 3.x, MorphOS and WarpOS. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Dec.2004
Murakami (ANF)
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Print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR issue 29
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French print magazine which is published by the association AFLE and is one
of the most important French Amiga magazines since it was founded in 1998.
In the current issue 29 you can read about the following topics:
- AmigaOS4 Update
- MorphOS 1.5
- Event: Alchimie 4
- LCD-Screen on Amiga
- Review: AsteroidsTR 1.2
- Review: Samsung LW17E24CD
- Tutorials: Roadshow, Tango, MakeCD, AmigaOS4 bootfiles
- Bjorn Lynne, demo-scene, hardware-tips...
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.Dec.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Participation in OpenSolaris pilot program
Press release Santa Clara, California - Genesi has been invited to participate
in OpenSolaris pilot program from Sun.
Those developers can take part in it which know the products from Sun and which
already have an Open Desktop Workstation. All those who are interested in participating in
please contact Raquel Velasco or Bill Buck via e-mail.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Dec.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox announces ColdFire-based accelerator board for the Amiga 1200
ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to announce its breath-taking
new product for Amiga 1200 computers - DRAGON ColdFire.
DRAGON is a ColdFire-based accelerator card combined with
the PCI/AGP Expansion busboard.
With its DRAGON ColdFire development, Elbox brings to
Amiga computers top performance of the latest Freescale's
ColdFire V4e core based-processor, the successor of the
68k dynasty. DRAGON-equipped Amiga computers are ready
to run most of the 68k Amiga programs/applications several
times faster when compared against Amiga 1200 with the
fastest 68060 accelerators.
'By combining many attractive features like the high-performance
ColdFire processor, fast DDR memory, AGP graphics, powerful
PCI 66MHz technology and comprehensive software support,
DRAGON-equipped Amiga computers turn into modern, fast
and extremely functional power machines,' said Maciek
Binek, president and CEO of Elbox.
The DRAGON's mainboard and the DRAGON's ColdFire CPU card
are designed on two separate circuit boards. With modular
design, the DRAGON can be easily upgraded and configured
to meet the needs of the most demanding Amiga users.
DRAGON Technical Specification:
- ColdFire MCF5475 processor (410MIPS) running at
266MHz
- Two sockets for DDR-266 SDRAM modules, support up
to 1GByte of memory (1GB/s peak)
- One AGP slot (264MB/s peak access from the main
processor)
- Five 66/33MHz, 32-bit PCI slots, PCI 2.2 compliant
(264MB/s peak)
- 2MBytes of 32-bit Flash memory (containing upgradeable
DRAGON firmware)
- Asynchronous design with fast access to Amiga 1200
motherboard hardware
- Multi-channels DMA support (PCI <-> PCI,
PCI <-> DDR, PCI <-> AGP,
PCI <-> A1200)
- Auto-Recharge battery-backed Real Time Clock
- Four high-speed programmable serial (UART/USART/IRDA/modem)
controllers (optional)
- One Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and two FastEthernet 100Mbps
controllers (optional)
ColdFire processor:
The DRAGON ColdFire will initially be available with the
fastest ColdFire MCF5475 processor in clock speed of 266MHz.
MCF5475 features the V4e ColdFire core with MMU, dual
precision FPU and EMAC. The 266MHz version of the ColdFire
MCF5475 processor provides raw performance of 410MIPS.
Up to 1GB of DDR SDRAM:
The DRAGON comes with two DIMM slots for ultrafast DDR-266
SDRAM memory. This high-speed memory rushes data at up
to 1GB/s throughput. It is over 25 times faster compared
against the fastest A1200 accelerators available so far.
As memory is scalable up to 1GB, you can add RAM to meet
increasing demands of your applications and workflow.
AGP Graphic Slot:
The DRAGON comes with the 3.3V 66MHz AGP slot which supports
up to 264MB/s data throughput. The following AGP graphics
cards will be supported: Radeon 9700, Radeon 9500, Radeon
9200, Radeon 9000, Radeon 7500, Radeon 7000, Voodoo 5,
Voodoo 4, Voodoo 3.
PCI Expansion Slots:
The DRAGON comes with five 66/33MHz, 32-bit PCI slots
compliant with the PCI 2.2 specification. The DRAGON system
can be configured with PCI 66MHz or PCI 33MHz expansion
technology. All PCI slots provide DMA capability. The
DRAGON's ColdFire processor has linear access to the 4GB
PCI space.
Multi-channel DMA support:
DRAGON hardware provides Multi-channel DMA support. PCI
bus master cards can provide DMA accesses to all DRAGON
resources: the AGP card, DDR memory, other PCI cards and
the Amiga 1200 motherboard space. DRAGON' PCI-to-DDR Direct
Memory Access can reach up to 264MB/s throughput. This
feature allows even the fastest mass storage PCI controllers
to run at their top performance.
2MB of 32-bit Flash memory:
DRAGON includes 2 MBytes of the 32-bit extremely fast
Flash memory. It includes factory-programmed DRAGON's
boot firmware and diagnostic software. Flash ROM allows
remapping of the Amiga Kickstart, as well.
FastEthernet 100Mbps and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 (optional):
The DRAGON's MCF5475 processor has one built-in Hi-Speed
USB 2.0 controller and two FastEthernet 100Mbps controllers.
External ports for these controllers will be available
on an optional module. Hardware-acceleration encryption
(DES, 3DES, RC4, AES, MD5, SHA-1, RNG) is built into the
processor. Dual-channel architecture permits single pass
encryption and authentication.
High-Speed serial controllers (optional):
Up to four programmable serial controllers (PSCs), each
with separate 512-byte receive and transmit FIFOs for
UART, USART, modem, codec, and IrDA 1.1 interface, are
built in the DRAGON's MCF5475 processor. External ports
for these controllers will be available on an optional
module.
Compatible Tower systems:
The DRAGON ColdFire busboard is designed to be used in
the following tower systems: Mirage 1200, E/BOX 1200,
Power Tower, Winner Tower and Infinitiv Tower. Besides,
an Elbox custom-designed case for the DRAGON ColdFire
system will be announced soon.
Supported AGP and PCI cards:
- Graphic cards (Radeon 9700, Radeon 9500, Radeon
9200, Radeon 9000, Radeon 7500, Radeon 7000, Voodoo 5,
Voodoo 4, Voodoo 3)
- Sound cards (Sound Blaster 4.1 Digital, Sound Blaster
128 and cards based on the ForteMedia FM801 chipset--e.g.
Terratec 512i Digital)
- Serial ATA controllers (SiI 3114 support in development)
- Spider Hi-Speed USB 2.0 controllers
- TV tuner cards (based on Bt848/849/878 and FUSION
878/879)
- Fast Ethernet 100Mbps cards (based on RTL8139 chipset)
- Ethernet 10Mbps cards (based on RTL8029 chipset)
Pricing and availability:
The DRAGON ColdFire is planned to be available by the
end of January 2005 for a very attractive price, offering
superior price/performance ratio. The suggested retail
price is 349 EUR. (VAT excl.)
Registered owners of Elbox Mediator 1200 PCI busboards
will receive a special incentive upgrade offer in January
2005. (snx)
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16.Dec.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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Web browser: AWeb APL Lite 3.5 beta release 4
The new beta release of 'AWeb APL Lite' with many bugfixes is available now. Detailed descriptions of the changes and fixes can be found in the changelogs of the OS3 and OS4 version.
Download:
AmigaOS 3: aweb3.5.04b68k_20041216.lha (1.6 MB)
AmigaOS 4: aweb3.5.04bos4_20041216.lha (2.6 MB)
MorphOS: AWeb_3.5.04_MorphOS_bins.tar.bz2 (1.57 MB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Dec.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel MK4 delayed, C64 products on time
Bad news first: Unfortunately, one of our suppliers did not ship in time, so the production of the Catweasel MK4
could not start at the planned time. Due to this delay, we can't ensure that all our customers will have the controller under their Christmas tree. The soonest day of shipment is December 23rd, but it's more probable that shipping starts between Christmas and the new year.
The time that we already rented on the assembly machines is put to good use: In the past days, the last networking
card for the C64 "RR-Net" has been sold, so there would have been a delivery bottleneck if the new production run would have been started as planned early 2005. The second production run of RR-Net networking cards can now be brought forward, so the network-bundle for the C64 that we're offering since September 2003 is kept available without any interruption.
Developer Oliver Achten has finished his first product that will be produced by individual Computers: MMC64 is an MMC- and SD-card interface for the C64 computer. It uses the multimedia and Secure Digital flash cards that are known from the PDA world. That means that after you power up the computer, you can access any MMC or SD card that's FAT16-formatted - up to the size of 4GB! The built-in flashable BIOS with integrated file browser allows the user to load games and other programs, play SID-files with the built-in player, or write D64 images to a floppy drive.
MMC64 has a clockport for expansions like RR-Net, and a pass-through for other expansion cards. This pass-through is 100 % compatible with the Retro Replay - both expansions can be used in their full functionality at the same time. MMC64 will be available for 49,- EUR starting February 2005, and will be demonstrated for the first time at the TUM party in Hemsbach, Germany (December 27th to 29th, 2004). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Dec.2004
IOSPIRIT GmbH (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Christmas promotion with up to 87 % sales discount
The IOSPIRIT-onlineshop celebrates its reopening with massive price
reductions of up to 87 % compared to full standard pricing.
Available at heavily reduced prices are fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio
and the IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle (contains the latest full
versions of fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio).
To allow you to directly start using fxSCAN and VHI Studio, as an
extra every IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle in 2004 will ship with the
driver packages IOUSB Scanner Package, IOUSB DigiCam Package and VHI
RS232 Camera Drivers at no extra cost. The first customers placing an
order will (as long as our supply lasts) additionally receive the VHI
Driver Olympus.vhi. The drivers all come without support and
functional guarantee - therefore they come at no extra cost with the
package. (snx)
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16.Dec.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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NList Classes 0.96
The NList Open-Source Team today released version 0.96 of NList classes for MUI. Since the last release there's been mainly bugfixes undertaken besides the OS4 porting. Beyond that NListtree classes have been added to the packet.
Under the title link are versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS, each available in individual archives. The developer information is also available there. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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16.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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File-System Handler: Bugfix Releases Ext2FS V0.4 and SGIXFS V0.3
The file-system handlers Ext2FS and SGIXFS by Marek Szyprowski have now reached version 0.4 for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS. Bugs have been cleaned up, for the most part.
Changes of Ext2FS V0.4:
- fixed some problems with large (larger than 1 block) directories
- fixed problems with 'info' command from AmigaOS3.x
- changed DosType to 0x45585432 ("EXT2")
- number of cache buffers is now read from mountlist ('Buffers' field), not hard-coded in handler (please read more about buffers in documentation!)
Changes of SGIXFS V0.3:
- fixed some problems with extent-list-based directories
- added M68k version
Download:
ext2fs_0.4_68k.lha (38 KB)
ext2fs_0.4_mos.lha (32 KB)
sgixfs_0.3_68k.lha (37 KB)
sgixfs_0.3_mos.lha (29 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Dec.2004
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Software news in brief
AirHockey 2004 Beta 1
AirHockey 2004 is an arcade game of classical "Pong" style (Screenshots: 1, 2). The latest version comes with different difficulty grades and extras like the "Invert mode" or the "Wall locker", the calculation of the fight trajectories has also been improved.
Link: Homepage
Download: airhockey.lha (941 KB)
AmiDiction v2.9a
AmiDiction is a frontend for the English online dictionary by dictionary.com.
Link: Homepage
Download: AmiDiction.lha (33 KB)
WeatherCheck
WeatherCheck obtaines the weather forecast from the "Bureau of Meteorology", Australia for different regiones of the fifth continent.
Link: Homepage
Download: WeatherCheck.lha (31 KB)
Update of the codesets.library
The codesets.library supports programmers handling different codepages and converting text files.
Link: Homepage (cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Dec.2004
Turrican SETA (website)
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USB joystick: New production of the "Competition Pro"
The "Competition Pro" may be well known by many Amiga users - now this veteran is available for the universal serial bus (USB).
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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15.Dec.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Pianeta Amiga 2004: Some photos and a video (update)
Cloanto have posted some photos and a video from the "Pianeta Amiga 2004" at the title link.
Update: (15.12.2004, 21:00, cg)
More pictures by Andrea Maniero and "Seiya" are available at amigapage.it. (cg)
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15.Dec.2004
ANN (website)
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PegXMac: Update to version 1.3.2
The live CD PegXMac by David Bentham is available in version 1.3.2 now. PegXMac allows to launch Mac OS using Mac on Linux (MOL) on the Pegasos II without the need of a prior Linux installation.
Changes:
- G3/G4 optimization, resulting in a 15 % speed increase
- Kernel 2.4.25 no more included
- amiga-fdisk updated for proper hard disk recognition (thanks to Sven Luther)
- Mac-on-Linux updated to MOL-0.9.70-14
- Booting from SCSI drives with initrd (type "bootscsi" there)
Further the author announces that with PegXMacSP an update for Pegasos I users to version 1.3 will come. The AmigaOne support will be halted due to user's lack of interest. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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